Can artificial intelligence supplant friendship by providing quality communication? No, argues Jeffrey Hall: "It may taste like friendship, but it lacks the fundamental ingredients." ...

Jessica Fjeld calls for coalition between movement technologists and movement lawyers to push for structural changes in the face of advancing authoritarianism.

Social media platforms have become increasingly opaque at precisely the moment their influence on society has reached ...

The Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society is pleased to announce the ...

"These cybercrime conventions were never just about cybercrime. The stakes are higher: these conventions are tools in contesting the broader political global order." Faculty Associate Mailyn Fidler ...

Internet censorship is an (in)visible threat that is increasingly becoming more pervasive around the world -- often impacting vulnerable communities the most.

The way we communicate online evolves and changes shape rapidly. Through research, the building of tools, and bringing together diverse viewpoints and underrepresented voices, we seek to examine, ...

"It is time to stop treating disinformation as a user behavior problem and start seeing it for what it is: a structural, infrastructural, and systemic problem engineered by design." Faculty Associate ...

Harvard Berkman Klein Center’s Applied Social Media Lab Invites Collaborators in Open Source Development of Groundbreaking ...

This wiki page has been my main home page since June 2013. My latest book is Knowledge Unbound (MIT Press, 2016). It's available in paperback, hardback, and many open-access editions (same text, ...

LORD COLERIDGE, C J. The two prisoners, Thomas Dudley and Edwin Stephens, were indicted for the murder of Richard Parker on the high seas on the 25th of July in the present year. They were tried ...

Read Affiliate Joe Bak-Coleman's contribution to the UN Human Development Report 2025, with advisory input from Faculty Associate Arvind Narayanan and alums J. Nathan Matias and Zeynep Tufekci. Learn ...